The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... took out a hundred tons of salt , and brought back a heavy cargo of lava ballast . On his second voyage he took out the Welshman's daughter as his wife , and did not again trouble to send home an empty ship . 3 He had learned that ...
... took out a hundred tons of salt , and brought back a heavy cargo of lava ballast . On his second voyage he took out the Welshman's daughter as his wife , and did not again trouble to send home an empty ship . 3 He had learned that ...
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... took even a languid interest in it , arising partly out of the Governor's position and the wealth the honest man was supposed to have amassed in the rigorous exercise of a place of power , and partly out of the daughter's own comeliness ...
... took even a languid interest in it , arising partly out of the Governor's position and the wealth the honest man was supposed to have amassed in the rigorous exercise of a place of power , and partly out of the daughter's own comeliness ...
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... took her seat beside the Judge , with the Count standing at her side . In the space below there was a crowd of men and boys , women and children , gathered about the ring . One wrestler was throwing every one that came before him . His ...
... took her seat beside the Judge , with the Count standing at her side . In the space below there was a crowd of men and boys , women and children , gathered about the ring . One wrestler was throwing every one that came before him . His ...
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... his head in anger , and said it was not yet too late , that if he took home the champion's belt it should be no rue - bargain to master or man from sea to sea , and , buckled though it was , it should be his who 6 CAINE.
... his head in anger , and said it was not yet too late , that if he took home the champion's belt it should be no rue - bargain to master or man from sea to sea , and , buckled though it was , it should be his who 6 CAINE.
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... took her place between Jorgen and the Count for the return journey home . Twenty paces behind her the fair - haired Stephen Orry rode on his shaggy pony , which was gaunt and peaky and bearded as a goat , and five paces behind him rode ...
... took her place between Jorgen and the Count for the return journey home . Twenty paces behind her the fair - haired Stephen Orry rode on his shaggy pony , which was gaunt and peaky and bearded as a goat , and five paces behind him rode ...
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